This book reports a literature review on kaizen, its industrial applications, critical success factors, benefits gained, journals that publish about it, main authors (research groups) and universities. Kaizen is treated in this book in three stages: planning, implementation and control. The authors provide a questionnaire designed with activities in every stage, highlighting the benefits gained in each stage. The study has been applied to more than 400 managers and leaders in continuous improvement in Mexican maquiladoras. A univariate analysis is provided to the activities in every stage....
This book reports a literature review on kaizen, its industrial applications, critical success factors, benefits gained, journals that publish abou...
Benefiting researchers and graduate students involved in mathematical logic, this book opens with a detailed theory of reactive Kripke semantics in the first seven chapters, followed by five chapters demonstrating applications in a variety of areas.
Benefiting researchers and graduate students involved in mathematical logic, this book opens with a detailed theory of reactive Kripke semantics in th...
This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context. The chapters explore the models, tools and processes used by international organizations in order to assist international managers to better face the challenges and changes in HRM.
This book covers the issues related to human resource management (HRM) in an international context. The chapters explore the models, tools and process...
Among others, this book covers reliability measures, reliability assessment of multi-state systems, optimization of multi-state systems, continuous multi-state systems, new computational techniques applied to multi-state systems and probabilistic and non-probabilistic safety assessment.
Among others, this book covers reliability measures, reliability assessment of multi-state systems, optimization of multi-state systems, continuous mu...
This book provides discussions and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of industrial engineering. It communicates the latest developments and research activity on industrial engineering and is useful for all those interested in the technological challenges in the field.
This book provides discussions and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of indust...
The book is intended for bachelors and graduated students, as well as researchers in social psychology, environmental psychology, conservation psychology, environmental education, education for sustainable development, cross-cultural psychology, and social sciences.
The book is intended for bachelors and graduated students, as well as researchers in social psychology, environmental psychology, conservation psychol...
This book covers the main issues on the study of competencies and talent management in modern and competitive organizations. The chapters show how organizations around the world are facing (global) talent management challenges and give the reader information on the latest research activity related to that.
This book covers the main issues on the study of competencies and talent management in modern and competitive organizations. The chapters show how org...
This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization. The requirements are illustrated with examples from industries for understanding the requirements and preparing the documents of QMS with high clarity. Methods of integrating ISO 9001 requirements with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software are presented. The software integrated approach enables process owners to focus on their core tasks of achieving the planned outputs of processes and the software generates quality records automatically.
This book explains the requirements of ISO 9001 for establishing quality management system (QMS) for an organization. The requirements are illustrated...
This books presents the curricula necessary for sustainability in higher education. It prepares administrators, teachers and students to diffuse the development in the field, showing a curricula based on three interconnected pillars: the environment, the economic and the social aspects.
This books presents the curricula necessary for sustainability in higher education. It prepares administrators, teachers and students to diffuse the d...
This book disseminates the current trends among innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, methodologies, informatics platforms and models for developing advanced industrial tools and techniques and their application in different fields.
This book disseminates the current trends among innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies...
